Gingerbread People (paleo, AIP, vegan)

Once upon a time, Ethel the gingerbread woman lived with her gingerbread husband, Lester, in a small gingerbread house on the outskirts of Ginger Village. In most gingerbread families, the husband took care of the baking and childrearing, and Ethel and Lester were no exception. While Ethel went off to the bakery each morning, Lester raised three cheerful, plump gingerbread children named Bert, Harold, and Ginger the Fourth, all the while baking up a storm and filling their house with the scents of candy, chocolate, and cinnamon. On weekends Ethel and Lester would gather the kids and spend hours decorating, gluing the orange drops and rum-filled raisins that Lester had spent all week slaving over onto fresh icing around the windowpanes and shutters.

Ethel, Lester, Harold, Bert, and Ginger the 4th, pictured here.

One day, Ethel heard a knock on the door while she was getting ready for work. Lester had his hands full with a tray of marshmallows he was aiming to fix onto the chimney to simulate puffy white smoke clouds, so Ethel opened the door. There she beheld a pale, blue-speckled figure standing on her porch, oozing some kind of pungent slime onto the gingersnap beams.

“Can I help you?” asked Ethel hesitantly, glad for the moment that she had no nose.

Lots of good alternative gingerbread recipes out there, but the story opportunity was too good to pass up, so I made my own! Easy peasy and this works for a gingerbread house as well (stay tuned for follow-up post). I like a lot of ginger flavor but feel free to reduce/adjust ground ginger if desired.

Hi there…I’m so excited to try this recipe. Miss my gingerbread people so!
Question about the recipe…do you substitute BOTH the cloves and nutmeg with the MACE or just the nutmeg which was listed last?

1. Do you think you could substitute coconut flour for the tigernut flour?
2. My husband doesn’t eat anything from the red meat family, do you think I could use the Bob’s vegan egg replacer in place of the gelatin?

You could try the egg replacer or leave out the gelatin entirely, I usually sub agar agar but it shouldn’t make a big difference. Coconut flour is not a great sub for tigernut flour because of its unique texture (usually requires a ton of liquid/eggs), if you can tolerate nuts I’d try subbing almond or hazelnut flour instead, or something like plantain or water chestnut flour.

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